Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creation Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- Setting up default general backup options
- File types and file extension
- Best practices for backing up your data
- Backing up entire drives
- Backing up files and folders
- Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Managing virtual conversions
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access
- Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- Recovering a computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Appendix A. Backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery
- Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
- Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- Appendix D. Using Veritas System Recovery 21 and Windows Server Core
Creating a manual cold (offline) backup
A manual cold (or offline) backup ensures that all database transactions are committed to the hard disk. You can then use either Veritas System Recovery or the Veritas System Recovery Disk to create the recovery point, and then restart the database.
The following table summarizes the steps for creating a cold backup manually using Veritas System Recovery or Veritas System Recovery Disk.
Table: Creating a cold back manually
Step | Action | Description |
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Step 1 | Stop the database | Manually stop the database you want to back up. |
Step 2 | Create a recovery point | Create a recovery point using either Veritas System Recovery or the Veritas System Recovery Disk. Do one of the following:
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Step 3 | Restart the database | Manually restart the database anytime after the recovery point progress bar appears in the Monitor page of the console. While the database is restarted, the actual recovery point is immediately created from the virtual volume recovery point. |
See About backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery.